CVE-2013-4517

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Apache Santuario XML Security for Java before 1.5.6, when applying Transforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs), related to signatures.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Santuario: through 1.5.5; 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 (+11)

References

http://osvdb.org/101169
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124554/Java-XML-Signature-Denial-Of-Service-Attack.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0170.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0171.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0172.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0195.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1725.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1726.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1727.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1728.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0850.html

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